Example sentences of "[vb past] come from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pale daylight that entered came from a single tiny window in the front wall , but there were no curtains . |
| 2 | I heard a voice which seemed to come from a long distance — ‘ Throw the bastard down . |
| 3 | The occasional remark passing seemed to come from an infinite distance , and be answered after a prolonged interval . |
| 4 | The only serious threat appeared to come from a small group of exiles in Paris , chief amongst whom was Henry Beaumont , who had gathered together exiles from Lancaster s movement and some of the nobles who had lost lands in Scotland . |
| 5 | A Hampshire hotel hit on a clever country house compromise with gentle piano recordings that appeared to come from a live performer in the next room — creating a delightful backdrop to afternoon tea . |
| 6 | My father was a missionary had come from a dusty little town in South Africa , I 've got many wonderful experiences in my life , I 've had experience of heart transplant . |
| 7 | The sounds had come from a hundred yards east of the dell . |
| 8 | She broke down and wept bitterly when Wexford told her that that her husband 's supplementary income had come from a criminal source . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 10 | The glass firm said all the suspect bottles had come from a new lightweight bottle-making process which had now been halted . |
| 11 | I stopped wearing Tampax ( cotton wool pricks ) , and I stopped eating meat in case the chunk of sizzling corpse I was about to sit down to had come from a male animal . |
| 12 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 13 | The information had come from a reliable source and they had no reason to doubt it . |
| 14 | The tip had come from a reliable source . |
| 15 | Later it was revealed that the money had come from a different source . |
| 16 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 17 | Their so-called furnished accommodation had consisted of two old beds that had come from a second-hand shop , a brokendown settee , and a gas cooker that had probably been used all through the war . |
| 18 | He had come from a miserable place . |
| 19 | The idea had come from a short documentary I saw years ago called Werner Herzog Eats His Show . |
| 20 | I knew then that it was more inspiring than if the sound had come from an orphean bird . |
| 21 | Impressive though this result is , the transplanted nucleus had come from an early embryonic stage . |
| 22 | Darwin at the end of one of his books wrote that according to the unchanging world of his critics , there had been the fall of man into sinfulness and mankind were forever doomed to hopelessness , whereas in his ( Darwin 's ) theory of evolution , man had come from an inferior form , and because of this continuous progress , he commands a limitless potential . |